As of v0.12.1, XOWA now includes an HTTP server in addition to a TCP server. The TCP server is used by the Firefox Add-On (See <ahref="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Xtn/Browser/XOWA_viewer.html"id="xolnki_2"title="App/Xtn/Browser/XOWA viewer">App/Xtn/Browser/XOWA_viewer</a>).
If you are using Firefox, the Firefox Add-On is the recommended solution for using XOWA within a browser. However, if you want to use XOWA from another browser (for example, Google Chrome) or across the network, you will want to use the HTTP server instead.
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Note that the HTTP server is currently in an alpha stage, but should improve with coming releases. If you have any comments or feedback, please see <ahref="https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/discussion/general/thread/fa4baf84/"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://sourceforge.net/p/xowa/discussion/general/thread/fa4baf84/</a>
To use the XOWA HTTP server in another browser, do the following:
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Launch XOWA with the following command line: <code>java -jar /xowa/xowa_linux.jar --app_mode http_server --http_server_port 8080</code><supid="cite_ref-port_80_0-0"class="reference"><ahref="#cite_note-port_80-0">[1]</a></sup>
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Launch your browser and navigate to <code>localhost:8080</code>
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<spanclass="mw-cite-backlink"><ahref="#cite_ref-port_80_0-0">^</a></span><spanclass="reference-text">Note that you will need to run XOWA as root if you choose to pass port 80 for http_server_port.</span>
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